Two months ago, the Norwood News sent a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request to the city’s Department of Environmental Protection. We simply asked for the feasibility study for the Kensico City Tunnel, a massive and important project that could have a significant impact on the cost of building the water filtration plant at Eastview in Westchester.
On June 21, we got a letter back saying the agency would make a decision on our request within two weeks. After a month passed with still no word, we called the agency. When someone finally got back to us, she said that she was still trying to track it down among the various departments in the agency.
So, more than two months after we asked for a study of a project that will cost $2.5 billion, the agency says it can’t find the darn thing!
And these are the people we should trust to build an industrial facility in our neighborhood?
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Welcome to the Norwood News, a bi-weekly community newspaper that primarily serves the northwest Bronx communities of Norwood, Bedford Park, Fordham and University Heights. Through our Breaking Bronx blog, we focus on news and information for those neighborhoods, but aim to cover as much Bronx-related news as possible. Founded in 1988 by Mosholu Preservation Corporation, a not-for-profit affiliate of Montefiore Medical Center, the Norwood News began as a monthly and grew to a bi-weekly in 1994. In September 2003 the paper expanded to cover University Heights and now covers all the neighborhoods of Community District 7. The Norwood News exists to foster communication among citizens and organizations and to be a tool for neighborhood development efforts. The Norwood News runs the Bronx Youth Journalism Heard, a journalism training program for Bronx high school students. As you navigate this website, please let us know if you discover any glitches or if you have any suggestions. We’d love to hear from you. You can send e-mails to norwoodnews@norwoodnews.org or call us anytime (718) 324-4998.